pa007
08-09-2007, 00:39
Hello,
I am writing, to ask your opinions. My last post on these forums (a good while back) was not too well received and I realise now that I was perhaps heavy handed and looked a little too much like an advertiser. I guess that would have been a fair interpretation looking back on it now.
I write with a similar theme, this time I would ask a question. The web has developed in the past few years, a huge amount and there are endless social sites on one description or another. My question is do you think that there is place for a diving specific social site. I don't mean forum, like this, there are plenty of forums about, there is little need for another. I mean a place where people can make a profile, search for other divers, arrange trips, meet new dive buddies, post reviews of equipment, training programs and dive sites. A place where new divers can come and get some great info, not from a single author but from a community of divers with varying degrees of experience and differing circumstances.
My last attempt died a death because it was naive and foolish. I didn't plan things properly, that is not a mistake I wish to make again. I dive but I also develop for the web. I hope to bring the sort of state-of-the-art user experiences to the diving community that are usually reserved for entertainment sites and technology based sites.
One point you may raise is that there are sites that help divers find buddies, there are info sites, there are forums. And I agree there are. My reply to that would be that they aren't all in the same place, which isn't a problem but someone new, or someone less web-savvy doesn't want to be traipsing all over the web to find some info, or to meet like-minded people. And secondly, I don't think any of them are particularly easy to use (forums being the exception--most are relatively simple and virtually all work in the same way). My plan is to try to make sure that you spend as little time fighting technology as possible and do the things that you want to do quicker and with less hassle.
By all mean read my last post and vilify me again, no doubt I deserve it, but I would sincerely like your opinion on this. Do you think it, if done properly and if it received the correct coverage, would be of any use to new and old divers alike?
Oh and to answer a question posed in reply to my last post, on launch there would no advertising on the site at all. That would only change if I could no longer afford the upkeep of the site and had exhausted all other alternatives.
Pete. :)
I am writing, to ask your opinions. My last post on these forums (a good while back) was not too well received and I realise now that I was perhaps heavy handed and looked a little too much like an advertiser. I guess that would have been a fair interpretation looking back on it now.
I write with a similar theme, this time I would ask a question. The web has developed in the past few years, a huge amount and there are endless social sites on one description or another. My question is do you think that there is place for a diving specific social site. I don't mean forum, like this, there are plenty of forums about, there is little need for another. I mean a place where people can make a profile, search for other divers, arrange trips, meet new dive buddies, post reviews of equipment, training programs and dive sites. A place where new divers can come and get some great info, not from a single author but from a community of divers with varying degrees of experience and differing circumstances.
My last attempt died a death because it was naive and foolish. I didn't plan things properly, that is not a mistake I wish to make again. I dive but I also develop for the web. I hope to bring the sort of state-of-the-art user experiences to the diving community that are usually reserved for entertainment sites and technology based sites.
One point you may raise is that there are sites that help divers find buddies, there are info sites, there are forums. And I agree there are. My reply to that would be that they aren't all in the same place, which isn't a problem but someone new, or someone less web-savvy doesn't want to be traipsing all over the web to find some info, or to meet like-minded people. And secondly, I don't think any of them are particularly easy to use (forums being the exception--most are relatively simple and virtually all work in the same way). My plan is to try to make sure that you spend as little time fighting technology as possible and do the things that you want to do quicker and with less hassle.
By all mean read my last post and vilify me again, no doubt I deserve it, but I would sincerely like your opinion on this. Do you think it, if done properly and if it received the correct coverage, would be of any use to new and old divers alike?
Oh and to answer a question posed in reply to my last post, on launch there would no advertising on the site at all. That would only change if I could no longer afford the upkeep of the site and had exhausted all other alternatives.
Pete. :)